An Interview with Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Abstract

In Global Perspectives, we bring you interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world in an effort to explore the influence of culture, politics, and socio-economics on training, theory development, and adherence to clinical technique and psychoanalytic practice.

Keywords:

• anti-Semitism
• depression
• intergenerational transmission of trauma
• neuroscience
• trauma

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Jill Choder-Goldman

Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives and a licensed psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from NYU and her postgraduate psychoanalytic and supervisory training from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute. She has also completed her two year advanced program in group therapy from EGPS. She has a private practice in New York City, where she treats individuals, couples, and groups and currently is a clinical supervisor and advisor for NIPTI. She additionally devotes a part of her practice to those in the arts, having also had a successful career as a performer for 30 years.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Prof. Dr. Phil, was director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and professor emeritus for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel (2001-2016). She is currently senior professor at the University Medicine Mainz, Germany. She is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and has been Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Clinical, Conceptual, Epistemological and Historical Research of the IPA (2001–2009); Vice Chair for Europe of the Research Board der IPA (2010–2021); and Chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees (2018-19). She has received the Mary Sigourney Award (2016), the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis (2017), the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (2022–2027), and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2023). Her research fields are clinical and extra clinical research in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic developmental research, prevention studies, interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and literature, educational sciences, and neuroscience.